Tactile Teaching: Using Materials in the Classroom (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Chaucer MetaPage

Organizer Name

Susan Yager

Organizer Affiliation

Iowa State Univ.

Presider Name

Susan Yager

Paper Title 1

Mise-en-Page and Adaptation: An Assignment for Medieval-Inspired Manuscript Leaves of Chaucer's "ABC"

Presenter 1 Name

Jenny C. Bledsoe

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Agnes Scott College

Paper Title 2

"The Bicched Bones": Teaching the Pardoner's Tale with Replica Dice

Presenter 2 Name

Nora L. Corrigan

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Mississippi Univ. for Women

Paper Title 3

Tactile Arithmetic and Accounting: Counting Boards and Tally Sticks in the Shipman's Tale

Presenter 3 Name

David Sprunger

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Concordia College

Paper Title 4

Teaching by Doing: Women's Work in the Middle Ages

Presenter 4 Name

Mary Valante

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Appalachian State Univ.

Start Date

9-5-2019 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 212

Description

“Tactile” teaching is teaching with and through artifacts, old or new. The artifacts that will be shared and discussed in this session include student-designed and medieval-inspired manuscript pages; replica medieval dice for teaching the Pardoner's Tale; math tools for use in teaching the Shipman's Tale; and a sheep's fleece and the wool combed and spun from it. We invite colleagues to join in the conversation and share additional ideas for tactile teaching. Susan Yager